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Why Oracle Paid More Than $600 Million for Dyn

Business software titan Oracle paid somewhere between $600 million and $700 million to acquire Dyn, a source close to the deal told Fortune.

Earlier on Monday, Dan Primack reported that Oracle paid “north of $600 million” for the Manchester, N.H.-based company. Oracle and Dyn announced the deal, without financial details, Monday morning.

Dyn raised under $100 million in funding, making the $600 million low-end estimate a good haul. But Oracle orcl was not the only suitor circling Dyn, which has an outsized presence in making sure thousands of web sites remain accessible. IBMibm was also interested, according to the source who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak about the purchase.

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Dyn offers what are called domain name system (DNS) services. That’s geek speak for what is basically a high-tech directory that ensures that when a user clicks on an Internet address, say http://www.Fortune.com, he or she gets routed through to the more arcane numbered address of the servers that run that site.

Oracle’s acquisition was finalized weeks ago, before the well publicized distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack that overwhelmed Dyn’s systems in late October. That attack, which involved millions of Internet-connected devices deluging Dyn’s servers, made it impossible for users in big chunks of the country to access Twitter twtr , Netflixnflx , Zendesk zen , Github github , and other popular and corporate web sites for hours.